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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

Opening a FineReader document

When you start ABBYY FineReader, a new FineReader document is created. You can use this

document or open an existing one.

To open an existing FineReader document:

1. On the File menu, click Open FineReader Document…

2. Select the desired document in the dialog box that opens.

Note: When you open a FineReader document that was created in an earlier version of the

program, ABBYY FineReader will try to convert it to the current version of the FineReader document

format. This process is irreversible, and you will be prompted to save the converted document

under a different name. Recognized text from the old document will not be carried over to the new

document.

Tip: If you want the last document you worked on to be opened when you start ABBYY FineReader,

select the Open the last used FineReader document when the program starts option on the

Advanced tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options… to open the dialog box).

You can also open a FineReader document from Windows Explorer by right –clicking it and then

clicking Open in ABBYY FineReader 12. FineReader documents have the icon.

Adding images to a FineReader document

1. On the File menu, click Open PDF File or Image…

2. Select one or more image files in the dialog box that opens and click Open. The image will

be added to the end of the open FineReader document, and its copy will be saved in the

document's folder.

You can also add images from Windows Explorer to a FineReader document. Right–click an image in

Windows Explorer and then click Open in ABBYY FineReader on the shortcut menu. If a

FineReader document is open when you do so, the images will be added to the end of this

document. If this is not the case, a new FineReader document will be created from the images.

Scans can also be added. For details, see "Scanning Paper Documents."

Removing a page from a document

 Select a page in the Pages window and press the Delete key, or

 On the Page menu, click Delete Page from Document, or

 Right–click the selected page and click Delete Page from Document.

You can select and delete more than one page in the Pages window.

Saving documents

1. On the File menu, click Save FineReader Document…

2. Specify the path to the folder in which you want to save the document and the document's

name in the dialog box that opens.

Important! When you save a FineReader document, any user patterns and languages that were

created when you were working with this document are saved in addition to page images and text.